{"id":6777,"date":"2010-10-13T14:49:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T19:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6777"},"modified":"2010-10-13T14:49:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T19:49:55","slug":"read-aim-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6777","title":{"rendered":"Read, Aim, Fire!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/10\/the_national_ignition_facility.html\">The Big Picture:  The National Ignition facility<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Creating a miniature star on Earth&#8221; is the goal of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), home to the world&#8217;s largest and highest-energy laser in Livermore, California. On September 29th, 2010, the NIF completed its first integrated ignition experiment, where it focused its 192 lasers on a small cylinder housing a tiny frozen capsule containing hydrogen fuel, briefly bombarding it with 1 megajoule of laser energy. The experiment was the latest in a series of tests leading to a hoped-for &#8220;ignition&#8221;, where the nuclei of the atoms of the fuel inside the target capsule are made to fuse together releasing tremendous energy &#8211; potentially more energy than was put in to start the initial reaction, becoming a valuable power source. The NIF has cost over $3.5 billion since 1997 and is a part of the federally funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Scientists at NIF say they hope to achieve fusion by 2012. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Picture: The National Ignition facility &#8220;Creating a miniature star on Earth&#8221; is the goal of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), home to the world&#8217;s largest and highest-energy laser in Livermore, California. On September 29th, 2010, the NIF completed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6777\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}